PS points/$ for reading strat/watching videos

I have a problem getting bored while reading PS strats and watching long videos so it ocurred to me that PS.com could give points or $ for each article read and for each video watched. It doesnt have to be a lot but big enough to motivate. I don't know how easy this would be to implement/control.

imo this would motivate the ppl who get bored/tired easily and would improve our success at the tables greatly, producing revenue for PS.com

I understand that I shouldnt need motivation to read/watch PS content but the reality is different.

hmm, i think the collecting of points is the motivation for being able to reach the content like videos and articles... so getting points to watch videos to get more points for what? I mean, what are you gonna do with the new points you'd get for watching a video? gain access to more videos, that's all
. If you're bored whilst reading articles/watching videos, just watch/read like one a day or a few days, when you're on a downswing or something... it'll just help you improve your game
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Originally posted by Primzi
hmm, i think the collecting of points is the motivation for being able to reach the content like videos and articles... so getting points to watch videos to get more points for what? I mean, what are you gonna do with the new points you'd get for watching a video? gain access to more videos, that's all
. If you're bored whilst reading articles/watching videos, just watch/read like one a day or a few days, when you're on a downswing or something... it'll just help you improve your game
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do you even know what's the purpose of articles? they help YOU to improve YOUR game. so why would pokerstrategy pay you to become a better player? i mean ok, they'd get a bit more from your rake but i don't think it's woth it for them. well i'll try to put this as simple as possible. do you get payed to watch dvds about poker and read poker books? or do you pay for them? ask yourself that and you'll get the answer to all your questions
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Aside from being next to impossible to control, I see little real value in 'paying' members to improve their own game. In essence we are already paying you to take advantage of our content - since the content leads to better results at the tables, which in turns means a higher winrate and more money. This in turn leads to ability to play higher limits and thus more strategy points.

As such our current process not only 'rewards' players for reading articles - but is also fair both to the player and to us - since it only rewards players that actually put the concepts into practice.

If we were to reward the simple reading of the article or watching of the video - there would be no way of actually making sure it is put into practice. The reading/watching is only a small part of the learning process. If the player doesn't actively think about what he is seeing or reading, then there will not be any benefit from it - neither for the player nor to us. People could click through articles, or let videos run and earn points or $ without improving their game at all. They would also not need to play through tracked accounts - since clicking through our material would be enough. This would completely undermine our entire business model.

I can understand that the motivation to improve is not always easy to achieve but at the end of the day it is something that HAS to come from the player. Even though any player might reach a certain level of play through passive learning (e.g. watching or just reading and following instructions in articles) - sooner or later there needs to be a switch to active learning. That means the player needs to seek out information, question what he is reading and start thinking about own theories.

This is the only way he can really reach a 'higher' level of poker understanding. I would therefore rather put emphasis on helping any player to become the best he is & to support him or her in anyway possible than to "bribe them to learn".

ok so the original idea was shot down before taking off...i guess im the only one here with this problem.

lets try this:

how about shortening the videos to 20-30 mins max and making the articles more eye-friendly? You could use a bigger font and tailor them into shorter segments (if the site could remember what segment u were on it would be perfect imo) for easier reading.

For the videos we are planning on adding videos to each of the articles in the style you might have seen on some of the basic articles. This makes it easier on the eye (as you barely have to read) as well as hopefully more entertaining & easy to digest.

These videos should be around 20-30 minutes. As for regular videos, I believe the 30-60 minutes time span is good - depending on what is being covered. 20 minutes is simply very short

Originally posted by SoyCD
For the videos we are planning on adding videos to each of the articles in the style you might have seen on some of the basic articles. This makes it easier on the eye (as you barely have to read) as well as hopefully more entertaining & easy to digest.

These videos should be around 20-30 minutes. As for regular videos, I believe the 30-60 minutes time span is good - depending on what is being covered. 20 minutes is simply very short

Best regards
SoyCD

sounds good.

regular videos could be split into smaller videos so we could watch them in 2 segments of 20 mins instead of 1 40 min segment. this would not affect the amount of hands imo